Author: LEED Blogger

  • Gorgeous and Roomy Mobile Tiny Home

    The company Esk’et Tiny House recently finished one of the most unique tiny homes we’ve seen in a while. At 280-sqaure-feet it’s larger than we’re used to seeing and the way the achieved such spaciousness is by employing a number of unique solutions. This house is called the Esk’et Sqlelten tiny house and it is…

  • Energy Storage for Grid Resiliency

    DOE projects to increase the role of solar in U.S. power usage. More…

  • New Hampshire net metering cap angst: SunRay Solar lays off one-third of its workforce

    SunRay Solar LLC is a full-service solar energy systems integrator and is the leading installer for ground-mount in New Hampshire — but perhaps no longer. The Concord-based SunRay made the decision to layoff one-third of its workers and scale back operations because of New Hampshire’s solar net metering cap. ThisRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • More Nevada solar layoffs: Priemier Solar, Radiant Solar make cuts

    Stop us if you’ve heard this one before, but solar companies are laying off workers in Nevada and looking for business out of state. Following the now infamous decision to slash net metering buyback rates and add high fees for solar customers in Nevada, Las Vegas-based Radiant Solar Solutions of NV wasRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • How inverters are changing PV systems with bundled services

    There’s that joke about smartphones that’s kind of a cliché now: Why are they called “phones” still? The phone part is like 1 percent of its usefulness. Inverters are kind of trending in that direction, too. Defining an inverter as merely a device that converts direct current from a solarRead More — Solar Builder magazine